carrots... what's up doc?

nothing else will eat them so they are good , i bought a tractor bucket load last year and lasted a week, i have had luck with pumpkins apples corn and squash as well

Within 8 hours after putting out the carrots and replacing the cameras with my cell cams we now have 4 Does hanging around all night after 2 weeks without pictures.

Pumpkins are our go to.. And since we hunt mid November its perfect timing. Everyone wants to get rid of those rotten carved up Halloween pumpkins... We gather em all up let them freeze (if its cold enough) and toss them out a few days prior. We've had 3 does clean up 4 big pumpkins over night!

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Originally Posted by waterrat

Not sure on carrots, turnips however, are the bomb. Yrs ago while duck hunting, I had to walk across a bit of farm land to get to my pond. Came across a little patch of turnips, oddly it seemed to be in a weird spot. Apparently a food plot, before they became a thing. Nothing touched them until the first hard frost, and then it went nuts. Almost every time I went in or out, depending on AM or PM, I would jump deer.

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I've thought about trying them.. are they cheap? I live near the Holland Marsh.. carrots are super cheap, not sure about turnips

I tried carrots one year and the deer hardly touched them. Porkies and snowshoe hare ate a few but most of them molded then rotted. Turnips are like candy once the temp stays sub zero. The sugar content then goes up in the plant and the deer really hit them hard. In my food plots they will dig right down into the soil to get them.

any specific turnip? Do other critters eat them?

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Originally Posted by Splaker

any specific turnip? Do other critters eat them?

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Up at my place nothing else gets the chance the deer clean up very quickly, I find it better to plant Table turnips the kind you buy at the supermarket. The seed is not that easy to find and the co op's have stubble turnip that is not so good. There are a large number of different turnip plants.

Years ago I did a small experiment to see what went first, whole corn (not cracked), red oak acorns, or chestnuts. Chestnuts went first until they were all gone then the corn, and then red acorns.

Unfortunately at the time I did not know the difference between white oak acorns and red oak acorns but in observation of natural acorn drops the white acorns dont last long on the ground wheras red acorns will last until late season.

I have seen carrots sit on the ground and rot, same with apples.

Whole corn goes quick and is easy to buy, store, haul, and works well enough.

Thats in WMU 79 surrounded with Ag fields.

Up North I have heard its the opposite, friends say apples are the way to go.

If you can locate a white oak close to a parking lot then wait for a drop and take a garbage can and a shovel, you will get as many acorns as you want for free.

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Originally Posted by Splaker

any specific turnip? Do other critters eat them?

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I use the Cabelas brand sugar beet mix that uses “purple top turnip” in it .

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Someone advised me to try them for deer..swears by them. Anyone else have success with carrots?

good luck out there!

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Witnessing a doe attack a 3x3 patch of carrots yesterday after the first real snowfall but not before would tell me the luck with carrots increases if you get snow on the ground.


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